<div>Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, <i>Betty Zane</i> was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.<br><br><i>Betty Zane</i> is the story of the events culminating in the last battle of the American Revolution, when two hundred Redcoats from British-controlled Detroit along with four hundred Shawnee Indian attacked the small, wood-palisaded Ford Henry on the western frontier. The heroine of the battle--a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl--was <i>Betty Zane</i><br></div>